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'May 17. 1921. -f 1,628,640

C. BALDWIN PICTURE I Filed July 24. 1926 Patented May 17, 1927.

UNITED STATES CARTER BALDWIN, 0F WILMIGTON, DELAWARE.

PICTURE.

Application filed July 24,

This invention relates to pictures, 4and more particularly to pictures in which a 1variety of colors is used.

The principal object of. the invention is to provide means whereby a framed picture appears i'naterially larger' than its actual size and whereby a sense of pronounced perspective `is created in the picture.

Heretofore pictures have been framed either with a mat corresponding only in general tone to the tone of' the picture, or, omitting the mat, with a frame immediately surrounding the picture, the frame being plain or colored to preserve the general tone of the picture. Also it has been proposed to carry the pictorial effect of the picture on to a frame which immediately surrounds the picture in order to avoid the effect of sharp contrast between the picture and the frame.

I have discovered that by providing between a picture and its surrounding frame, a mat colored with one of the dominant colors of the picture immediately contiguous to said mat, or with the predominant color of the picture, or with several of the dominant colors of the picture contiguous to the mat, and by providing the frame with pictorial decorations corresponding to and suggesting a continuation of the picture there produced an effect which has not heretofore been obtained.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a ineferred embodiment of the invention. In this showing,

I `igure l represents the completed picture, and

Figure 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Figure l.

ln the d -awings the reference numeral 110 indicates a painting' of any suitable subject or any suitable tone. Immediately surroundingl the picture there is provided a mat 11. In the present illustration the mat is indicated as colored with the color of the sky as at 12. It is to be understood that I may color the mat with more than one color. .For example, the upper portion of the mat may be colored to correspond to the color of the sky and the lower portion of the mat may be colored to correspond to the color of the foreground as, for example, the green of the grass. Where two colors are einployed they are blended at the point of juncture by intermediate colors to avoid sharp contrast. I find, however, that the 1926. Serial No. 124,749.

most pleasing effect is obtained by coloring the mat with the predominant color of the picture, whether it be that of the sky, foliage, foreground or other part of' the picture.

Imnieeliately surroundingl the mat ll, I provide a frame 1.3. On said frame I provide pictorial decorations suggesting the continuation of" the picture, and color the fran'ieaccordingly. In the picture shown I continue the road 14, for example, on the frame as at 15. As indicated on the top portion of the frame I continue the trees shown in part in the picture. By so decorating' the frame there is suggested on the frame the foreground of a scene of which the picture forms the background.

By mounting and framing a painting in a manner as described above I find that the painting is set forth to the best possible ad vantage for purposes of display. The. frame which heretofore has tended to destroy the tone of the picture and to be an eye sore, by my invention appears to form a art ofl the picture, and a harmony of color and tone between the frame and the picture is produced. The provision of the mat colored as above indicated together with the frame decorated as abovel described produces an optical illusion whereby the painting appears to be materially larger than its actual size and an effect of pronoiilneed perspective is produced. l

VWhile I have employed for the purpose ol." illustration a landscape it .is to be understood that my invention is applicable to any subject desired. Althougl'i my invention is lmrticularly adapted to oil paintings, I lind that I obtain very pleasing results when employing.;I water colors, pastels, colored lithographs and the like.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes in the shape, size, and arrangement of parts may bc resorted to lwithout departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the sulijoined claims.

What I claim is:

1. .An article of the class described comprisiiig a colored picture, a frame surrounding but spaced from the picture, said frame being pictorially decorated to represent a continuation of' the picture, a mat between the picture and the frame, said niet being colored to correspond with a dominant color uppezirring'in portion 4of tii'e'pdture'cone tiguous thereto.

An article of the class vde scribed conuprising u colored picture; i frame ISurrounding but spaced from the picture, said lrglme `'the picture "and the frame, Suid inzit corre- 

